Guitar Pro Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to Guitar Pro for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is TuxGuitar, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Guitar Pro and many of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Guitar Pro are MuseScore, Avid Sibelius, Band-in-a-Box and Yousician.

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Guitar Pro alternatives are mainly Music Production Apps but may also be Digital Audio Workstations or Piano Trainers. Filter by these or use the filter bar below if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Guitar Pro.

Guitar Pro

Music Production App
Paid • Proprietary

Guitar Pro is first and foremost a program designed to edit tablatures for guitar, bass, and other fretted instruments from 4 to 8 strings.

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Guitar Pro alternatives page was last updated Apr 15, 2020

DGuitar
DGuitar is a Guitar Pro (GP4, GP3, GTP) viewer/player that works on Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and any other operating system that has Java Runtime Environment 1.4 or later installed.
36 DGuitar alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Music Production App
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
DGuitar Features
Support for MIDI
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Discontinued
The last software release was published on February 20th, 2006.
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Aria Maestosa
Aria Maestosa is an open-source (GPL) midi tracker/editor. It lets you compose, edit and play midi files with a few clicks in a user-friendly interface offering keyboard, guitar, drum and controller views.
39 Aria Maestosa alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Music Production App
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Aria Maestosa Features
Support for MIDI
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FATpick
Interactive guitar tab player, synchronized with audio, with real-time feedback on and accuracy as you play along with any guitar. Import any Guitar Pro file.
6 FATpick alternatives
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
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FATpick Features
1. Custom songs
2. Play along tabs
3. Guitar support
4. Pitch Detection
5. Interactive chord detection
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music21
Music21 is a Python-based toolkit for computer-aided musicology. Applications of this toolkit include computational musicology, music informations, musical example extraction and generation, music notation editing and scripting, and a wide variety of approaches to composition, bo.
39 music21 alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Music Production App
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
music21 Features
Ad-free
Support for MIDI
Works Offline
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guitarLayers
guitarLayers is a professional macOS guitar learning software. It allows you to visualize and manage, scales, chords and arpeggios shapes through a fully parametric control interface.
8 guitarLayers alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
+2
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Go PlayAlong
Go PlayAlong is an interactive tab player enabling you to play along with the original recordings, perfectly synced to your tabs. Stay motivated and focus on the songs that you love.
7 Go PlayAlong alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application type
- Music Production App
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
+2
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Comments about Go PlayAlong as an Alternative to Guitar Pro

Balazs Forian-Szabo
Go PlayAlong is slick tab player app with some unique features, like synced playback of mp3 backing tracks and support for Guitar Pro and PowerTab file formats.
Positive comment •Apr 14, 2020
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- Go PlayAlong is Paid and ProprietaryGuitar Pro is also Paid and Proprietary

Stave'n'Tabs
iOS and macOS notation and tablature editor with MIDI and MusicXML files support and chromatic scales analyze of the score.
23 Stave'n'Tabs alternatives
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application type
- Music Production App
Platforms
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
Stave'n'Tabs Features
Support for MIDI
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Melody Assistant
Melody Assistant is dedicated to music writing, printing and rendering. Easy to use, Melody Assistant offers a user-friendly interface and powerful capabilities. Now used by a very active community of thousands of people, it has become a favored tool for creating music.

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43 Melody Assistant alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application type
- Music Production App
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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Harmony Assistant
Harmony Assistant is an unbeatable software for computer-assisted music composition and editing.
41 Harmony Assistant alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application type
- Music Production App
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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